Monday, October 30, 2006

Sometimes news reporters are funny in that they report on the sensationalism of a story, all the while sensationalizing it.

A 19 year old in Alabama raped his mother. In a video on CNN a reporter tells how he was arrested for the rape of his own mother (emphasing 'his own mother'). She says, "The boy held his mother down until he was finished." with apparent glee. The video starts out with a warning that it contains graphic content, and the police officer says it is something hard to wrap your mind around. This reporter does her job though, helping people wrap their minds around it; she emphasizes 'rape' and 'mother' whenever she says it, as well as each word of 'until he was finished' and 'first degree rape of his own mother'. She reports with such excitement you'd think she was there during the execution of the crime....

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